What are 2 possible reasons that the shapes of the statue are so round? (pick 2
answers below)
People from this time period were very round and obese.
The writing on the base of the statue says that the woman represents mother earth, and
since the earth is round, so is the goddess represented.
The person carving it was making a stylized, not a realistic sculpture
Ancient people handled the stone so much that it naturally became rounded to match
the shapes of their hands as they rubbed it over campfires.
The statue may represent fertility and the rounded shapes echo fertility and
reproduction.